The battle ahead is daunting, but for the first time since the election I feel we have a fighting chance to topple tyranny.

September 6, 2016

How did he take such profoundly empathetic photographs?

January 15, 2015

From 1961 until 1966, King published in The Nation an annual report on the progress of the civil-rights movement during the previous year. In this installment, "Hammer of Civil Rights," from the March 9, 1964, issue, King reflected on the year that had seen violent suppression of protests in Birmingham, the March on Washington, the deaths of four schoolchildren in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Despite the tragedies, King hoped that the new president, Lyndon Johnson, would use the powers of the presidency more assertively to protect and advance the cause of civil rights, as in fact he soon did.